" Trump's defense: "I want people that made a fortune!
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He made a fortune from an antiseptic that cured gonorrhoea.
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Sophia made a fortune designing coats; the house is hers.
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Gabb made a fortune as a wine distributor in the UK.
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John Doerr, the venture capitalist who made a fortune on Amazon.
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Firtash made a fortune selling Russian gas to the Kiev government.
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Educational Testing Service has made a fortune from outdated admissions practices.
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The Osage leased the land to prospectors and made a fortune.
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I would have made a fortune, if I just ran my business.
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They've covered the man who made a fortune buying domains like Porn.
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His father made a fortune as an early investor in Qualcomm Inc.
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He grew up poor, made a fortune, partied hard, and struggled with addiction.
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He'd made a fortune off a nonprofit-turned-for-profit hospice care scheme.
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John Brown, a pillar of Providence's upper crust, made a fortune on smuggling.
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He made a fortune in Silicon Valley and now has left it for good.
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Fadell made a fortune in Silicon Valley and now has left it for good.
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GOOGLE has made a fortune by helping people dig up whatever information they seek.
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It made a fortune as an early investor in Alibaba, the Chinese internet company.
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A medical doctor by training, Mr. Ahn made a fortune developing antivirus computer software.
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Broidy, 61, made a fortune in investments and has since become a defense contractor.
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Los Angeles–based wellness guru Amanda Chantal Bacon has made a fortune selling ... herbal dust.
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Hugh Hefner made a fortune selling sexual freedom for the 20th century in Playboy magazine.
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He made a fortune through BitAuto, a pioneering online platform for buying and selling cars.
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Mr. Papert and his partners were paid, in part, in stock; they made a fortune.
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He's made careers, and he has made a fortune, for himself and for his employer.
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Of course, while federal workers struggle, President Trump has made a fortune from government assistance.
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He made a fortune as an Apple director, a Google adviser, and a venture-capital partner.
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Zamel's father had made a fortune in the mining business, and Zamel was a skilled networker.
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Like Trump, Peebles made a fortune in real estate before toying with an entry in politics.
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He rejected charges that he was too commercial, although he made a fortune in market research.
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If Trump hadn't gotten rich in real estate, he could have made a fortune selling cars.
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He managed that fund when Mr. Soros made a fortune by betting against the British pound.
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He comes from wealth and has made a fortune off his family's liquor business and gelato company.
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GoPro GoPro effectively took an old product that everyone has, re-purposed it, and made a fortune.
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"Rose and Rosie, Emily and Amelia… We could have made a fortune by now," she told me.
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Many of Mr Bouteflika's allies made a fortune through corrupt contracts and want to protect their gains.
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In the 1s Mr Turnbull had made a fortune investing in OzEmail, an Australian internet-service provider.
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After Hurricane Katrina, many—including the occasional corrupt politician—have made a fortune from rebuilding New Orleans.
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Democratic activist Tom Steyer made a fortune managing a hedge fund, Farallon Capital, for over two decades.
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A Bell High alumna named Susan Le who bought out her parents' company and made a fortune.
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Mexico has for many years made a fortune off of the U.S., far greater than Border Costs.
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Pallotta, an American who made a fortune as a hedge fund manager, had no problem paying up.
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The other is an overweight pragmatist who made a fortune lobbying for all manner of liberal boogeymen.
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Lasry, who made a fortune buying up troubled assets, cautioned against trying to pinpoint a market bottom.
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Wealthy businessmen like Ali Haddad, who made a fortune from state contracts, were carted off to jail.
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He'd made a fortune in Hong Kong building his way from manufacturing to real estate to finance.
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Pien's wealth comes from her father, a Taiwanese immigrant who made a fortune in biotech and pharmaceuticals.
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Son made a fortune by betting big on a few hunches at the dawn of the internet.
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Before running for Congress, Issa built a small business and made a fortune in the technology sector.
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He'd made a fortune in Hong Kong building his way from manufacturing to real estate to finance.
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He ended up seducing Henry Hermand, an octogenarian who had made a fortune developing suburban shopping centers.
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Phillips comes from wealth and has made a fortune off his family's liquor business and gelato company.
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Here's the truth: Barnum made a fortune from exploiting a base, universal, and typically suppressed impulse: To gawk.
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Double Eagle and its predecessor companies have made a fortune buying and selling Permian acreage starting in 2009.
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His father, William Beattie-Seaman, made a fortune from the distilleries business and married a much younger woman.
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Scott, who made a fortune in health care, won Florida's gubernatorial election in 2010 as a political newcomer.
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This is a bit ironic, as Phillips made a fortune off his family's liquor business and gelato company.
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" Novogratz, who successfully shorted the Thai baht, told me, "When Asia blew up, my team made a fortune.
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His Hengdian Group made a fortune in electronic components in the early years of the country's capitalist transition.
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Annie Moore never made a fortune, or wrote a book, or invented a computer, and why should she?
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Joe has also made a fortune and just listed his luxury farmhouse in Sherman Oaks for $4.25 million.
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The only current owner to have played in the N.F.L., Richardson made a fortune on fast food restaurants.
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Or consider John Hickenlooper, who made a fortune from the labor of low-wage workers in his restaurant chain.
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While he made a fortune from the financial crisis, far too many Ohioans have yet to recover from it.
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Before entering politics, he made a fortune by founding finance companies that raised $13 billion in capital for businesses.
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Their grandmother's illegal business made a fortune for her family, and Maggie and Helen find Trump's immigration views racist.
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Billy (Jemaine Clement), having made a fortune in tech, now lives in polyamorous retirement on a beach in Maui.
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She and Mr. Prince grew up in Michigan, where their father made a fortune in the auto parts business.
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Subsequently, he made a fortune as a Manhattan lawyer, and became a regular at the best restaurants and clubs.
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Face in the Crowd Michael Kors has made a fortune from perfecting a certain look that is all his own.
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Trump also criticized NBC for treating him "horribly" despite his having "made a fortune" for the network with The Apprentice.
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Lee's willingness to sign a state proclamation honoring a man who made a fortune in human trafficking takes us backward.
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In fact, he has never made a fortune, and he intentionally dropped out of the Silicon Valley race-to-riches.
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Perot was a natural salesman who made a fortune in computer services but he was an unlikely and unconventional politician.
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Mr. Sondland, 62, made a fortune in hotels, and has been a prominent Republican donor and fund-raiser for years.
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Or take Michael Schmale, who comes from a conservative family that made a fortune in the oil and gas industry.
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From 2008 to 2012, there were hundreds of attacks, and the pirates, and their financiers, made a fortune in ransoms.
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For the last decade, Taiwanese company Singtex has made a fortune from those grounds, creating fabric out of coffee waste.
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Mark Zuckerberg, who made a fortune turning his own social anxieties into a website, is an odd person to fawn over.
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He made a fortune rehabilitating American steel companies and later fashioned his corporate turnaround experience into a private equity investment company.
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He made a fortune rehabilitating American steel companies, and later fashioned his corporate turnaround experience into a private equity investment company.
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Public shareowners have watched as private equity has taken underperforming public companies, underperforming divisions of public companies, and made a fortune.
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In 2014 Ding Ning, an entrepreneur who had made a fortune manufacturing screws and tin-openers, started a company called Ezubao.
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They made a fortune off of Trump, but so did everyone else - and that's a good thing, not a bad thing!
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She realized that the Sackler family, whose name she recognized from museums and galleries, had made a fortune peddling the drugs.
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Over the past two decades, the real estate mogul and host of CNBC's "The Deed " has made a fortune flipping properties.
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Double Eagle Energy Permian LLC and its predecessor companies have made a fortune buying and selling Permian acreage starting in 2000.
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After leaving Treasury, Mr. Powell remained in Washington and made a fortune as a private-equity investor at the Carlyle Group.
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They came from humble roots, made a fortune in the 22008s in meatpacking, then in middle age fell spellbound by art.
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Mediator The Fox News creator made a fortune creating a cultural safe space for Americans pining for the way things were.
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Mr. Kashper, 22015, is a millionaire many times over, having made a fortune reviving several all-but-moribund Eastern European breweries.
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Founded in 3003, General Atlantic was originally the family office of Chuck Feeney, who made a fortune on duty free shops.
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Saban, who made a fortune bringing the children's TV show Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to America, is a pro-Israel hawk.
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Now Icahn, an 81-year-old who made a fortune wresting control of the Taj, is already curating the new administration's policies.
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John Doerr made a fortune for his venture firm through an early investment in Amazon, when it was just an online bookseller.
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Everyone involved made a fortune, but it is frustrating to subordinate your preferences based on financing decisions made half a decade earlier.
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And for those who realized that at the time, they could have made a fortune on stocks like Splunk, Salesforce or Workday.
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The elder Pickens made a fortune, now estimated at about $1 billion, from investments in oil, natural gas and nuclear power companies.
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Lacey and Larkin were heroes to many—micks from the sticks who made a fortune thumbing their shanty-Irish snouts at authority.
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CCA claims that Mr Izmirlian, whose father made a fortune selling African peanuts, drove up costs by demanding changes to the design.
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He made a fortune in real estate; part of his property was on what is now Malbone Street, east of Prospect Park.
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He's big on digital innovation, from which he made a fortune, and the convergence of great universities, scientific research and creative industries.
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Mr. Kushner's father, Charles Kushner, had also made a fortune in real estate and was a Democratic power broker in New Jersey.
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He made a fortune at Goldman Sachs and later started Dune Capital Management, which bailed out a failed California-based housing lender.
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Blackwater, the company he founded, made a fortune during the Iraq War but got into a lot of trouble along the way.
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He recently met someone who had just made a fortune selling his start-up and was now experimenting with mind-altering drugs.
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The baron is about to marry Sophie, the young daughter of Faninal, an ambitious striver who has made a fortune selling arms.
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Tucker Carlson's insight — "If Trump hadn't gotten rich in real estate, he could have made a fortune selling cars" — may be correct.
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Carol Aebersold, co-author of "The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition" ... made a fortune selling gear based on the book.
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Said fifth friend has made a fortune and spent it on a palatial jungle getaway, which the other guys are eager to see.
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Some speculate that people who made a fortune on cryptocurrency are trying to invest their returns elsewhere, driving up demand for YC startups.
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Though Trump does in fact build many of his signature properties, he and his family have made a fortune simply licensing his name.
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"Public shareowners have watched, as private equity has taken underperforming public companies, underperforming divisions of public companies and made a fortune," Garden said.
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Walentas, who made a fortune developing real estate in Brooklyn, New York, has a net worth of $22018 billion, according to Forbes estimates.
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But the insurance companies that made a fortune, that money was a subsidy and almost, you could say, a payoff for insurance companies.
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Like Ghosn, Karpeles is a French businessman in Japan who made a fortune, and then lost his freedom following accusations of financial misconduct.
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Soros had made a fortune at his hedge fund, Quantum, by predicting systemic instabilities, and he thought that Hungary's regime was near collapse.
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Over the years, many who made a fortune off Silicon Valley skedaddled to lower-tax locations where they could better protect their wealth.
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In 1980, she married the eccentric and bisexual nobleman, whose family made a fortune as the postal service for the Holy Roman Empire.
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His family fortune is entwined with the country, where his father made a fortune in construction, and two of his children remain there.
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Before joining the White House, Ross made a fortune in the investment world, running W.L. Ross & Co., and buying stakes in distressed assets.
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People in this country deserve regulators who protect them from the very groups and interests that Bernhardt has made a fortune from representing.
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"For all of you that have made a fortune in the markets, or seen your 401k's rise beyond your wildest expectations," he said.
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It's Wilbur Ross, named to head the Commerce Department after having made a fortune as an investor, buying and dismantling distressed industrial corporations.
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The wider public knew him from his frequent appearances on QVC, the home shopping network, where his company made a fortune in sales.
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He is also an heir of the Leventis-David Group, a family company that has made a fortune bottling Coca-Cola, numerous outlets report.
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O'Leary made a fortune selling an education software company that he founded in his basement in 1986 to Mattel for $4.2 billion in 1999.
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Poroshenko is part of the same wealthy elite as Kolomoisky, having made a fortune from confectionery that earned him the sobriquet of "Chocolate King".
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Having made a fortune in servicing mining companies, in 1997 he bought TP Mazembe, Lubumbashi's football team, and turned it into Africa's most successful.
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The move is especially notable because a century ago John D. Rockefeller Sr. made a fortune running Standard Oil, a precursor to Exxon Mobil.
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While The Real Real has found a niche (and has made a fortune) selling luxury online, ThredUp prides itself on owning the middle market.
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Mr. Rutenberg argued that Mr. Ailes had made a fortune in upending the traditional news media, focusing on Americans he said were being ignored.
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In that time, he has made a fortune clogging inboxes with spam using a network of computers infected with a malware known as Kelihos.
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The Star Tribune reported that Irwin Jacobs made a fortune as a corporate raider who bought and then liquidated failing companies at a profit.
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"When it made a fortune and it became successful ... he made them not whole, he made them richer than they already are," Brafman said.
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In 1959, she married Prince Radziwill, 19943 years her senior, who had arrived in London in 1946 and made a fortune in real estate.
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Founding father Amschel's son Nathan Meyer Rothschild is reputed to have made a fortune buying British government bonds in anticipation of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
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The Botticelli drawings were first acquired by the 10th Duke of Hamilton, a respected lover of the arts who made a fortune from Scottish coalfields.
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Some have been circulating a Huffington Post piece, "Mike Pence's Man in the Swamp," that digs into how Ayers made a fortune in political consulting.
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Kirchneristas routinely castigate Mr Macri as the spoilt son of a rich man; his father, an Italian immigrant, made a fortune as a government contractor.
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One of those was General Khan, the powerful Oruzgan figure who made a fortune as a highway militia leader providing security escort to NATO convoys.
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He and his brother made a fortune subcontracting for mining companies, and the family business has been implicated in corruption scandals in Zambia and Europe.
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Mesler's Orthodox Jewish immigrant grandfather made a fortune in wire-hanger manufacturing; his father, Morris, a doctor, blew most of it on pharmaceutical-grade cocaine.
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A South African native, Musk moved to the US during the original dot-com boom and made a fortune as a co-founder of PayPal.
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She earlier made a fortune as an executive in an energy company — a role that earned her the nickname "gas queen" — before jumping into politics.
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Mr. Berlusconi revolutionized Italian television and made a fortune by ushering in the era of "velinas," scantily clad women as adornments to virtually any programming.
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Lobbyist Michael Esposito has made a fortune during the Trump presidency, while boasting personal connections with the president and his advisers, the Washington Post reports.
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My problem is you made a fortune in America, you had a great idea, you got out there and worked for it, good for you.
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Here's my feeling: They made a fortune off of it, and they didn't do any ... I don't forgive them quite so quickly as you do.
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He made a fortune and began a rise to national prominence by winning elections to the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas in 1966 and 1968.
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I've made a fortune by using debt and if things don't work out, I renegotiate the debt … you go back and you say, 'Hey, guess what?
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He made a fortune in trade and construction, riding an infrastructure boom in the 1960s that was partly fueled by American investment during the Vietnam War.
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Florida's Rick Scott has perhaps the best relationship with Trump, but made a fortune running a company that paid a $1.7 billion fine for Medicare fraud.
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The Japanese conglomerate also made a fortune when its early investment in the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba slowly swelled to billions of dollars in value.
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For all of you that have made a fortune in the markets, or seen your 23k's rise beyond your wildest expectations, more good news is coming!
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Among his clients are Koch Industries and Devon Energy Corporation, a gas-and-oil company that has made a fortune from vertical drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
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The promise of psychometrics appealed to Mr. Mercer, a computer scientist who made a fortune helping to lead Renaissance Technologies, a Long Island-based hedge fund.
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A successful entrepreneur, he made a fortune with his company, National Business Products, and is now enjoying the fruits of his labor as he approaches retirement.
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Once a renowned political consultant who made a fortune lobbying for foreign dictators, Manafort's fall from grace was exacerbated by his chronic aversion to telling the truth.
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Housing, too, is famously hard to short; in the global crisis those few financiers who found vehicles to bet against mortgage-backed securities eventually made a fortune.
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Whatever your opinion on the Skull Trooper is, one thing is for certain: if this many players are buying it, Fortnite's developers likely made a fortune yesterday.
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Kylie Jenner has made a fortune over the past few years — $900 million, to be exact — and a lot of that has to do with her lips.
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Like U.S. presidential hopeful Trump, a leading U.S. Republican contender, Tapie made a fortune in the 1980s and has seen it go up and down since then.
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He was one of the original celebrity chefs, and could have easily made a fortune hawking cookbooks and hosting culinary battles for the rest of his life.
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And now the funny thing is he didn't talk about the hundreds of really successful jobs, the buildings all over the world that have made a fortune.
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While stories of people who have made a fortune in gold ricochet throughout the Aïr mountains, one has to squint to see anything resembling wealth and prosperity.
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If the Walentas family has shaped modern Dumbo, the late 19th-century champion was Robert Gair, a Scottish immigrant who made a fortune with mass-produced boxes.
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He made a fortune hunting for oil in unproven terrain in the 1950s and '60s, then reinvented himself as a corporate raider in the 210s and '22000s.
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Mr. Lauder acquired the unit from the estate of Ronald P. Stanton, a refugee from Nazi Germany who made a fortune in petrochemicals through his company, Trammo.
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"My problem is you made a fortune in America – you had a great idea, you got out there and worked for it – good for you," she said.
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Kardashian told CNBC that she has made a fortune off her brand because of her persistence and ability to focus on achieving her professional goals (video below).
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Still, after studying at the Orthogenic School with Bruno Bettelheim, who taught him to "never care what others think," Mr. Lewis made a fortune on Wall Street.
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"If they don't, we'll simply go ahead with Mexico," said the Commerce secretary, who before joining the White House made a fortune buying stakes in distressed assets.
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Like other suits that have been filed, this one alleges the Sackler family made a fortune by using deceptive marketing to sell addictive and potentially deadly painkillers.
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Hughes, who made a fortune as a co-founder of Facebook, also told CNBC that the digital economy is "going to continue to destroy" jobs in America.
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She's married to Pierre Bastid, a 64-year-old Moroccan-born Frenchman who made a fortune in energy, and recently dabbled in Alpine hotels, restaurants and pharmaceuticals.
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The famous — and outspoken — designer had a long and storied career, achieved a legendary stature in the fashion world, and made a fortune that's nothing to sneeze at.
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Barnum made a fortune from placing curiosities into a glass box in his museum, and allowing people to look freely at what they would normally look away from.
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Mr. Black made a fortune picking winners in stocks, which is why his clients include business titans like Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City.
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The long story short ... Ozzie and Dan -- who had previously made a fortune in the textile industry -- played hardball with the NBA during the ABA-NBA merger negotiations.
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Winfrey has been in the news lately for shedding about 26 pounds on her new Weight Watchers diet, and thanks to her dietary commitment, she's made a fortune.
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But Trump, a self-described billionaire who made a fortune in New York real estate and entertainment, has stocked his cabinet with Wall Street bankers and industry tycoons.
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We were somewhere past Kimberley, the Northern Cape Province city where Cecil Rhodes had famously — or, rather, infamously — made a fortune mining diamonds more than a century ago.
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I am supportive of Lamar as a person & also of the process, but I can never support bailing out ins co's who have made a fortune w/ O'Care.
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Mr. Ramaphosa — an A.N.C. veteran who made a fortune in business before returning to politics in 2012 — campaigned hard to win back alienated black professionals in the cities.
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Here's more from Bloomberg Businessweek: He grew up and earned his law degree there and made a fortune while working at D.C.-based private equity powerhouse Carlyle Group.
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Residents recruited at the office of Mr. Apolinar — who is currently mayor of Tlapacoyan — said they believed he had made a fortune charging workers fees to secure jobs.
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In Turkey, our correspondent met a man who made a fortune in human trafficking and a 15-year-old Syrian migrant scrubbing root vegetables to make a living.
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Houston Texans owner Bob McNair -- who made a fortune in energy plants and brought the NFL back to Houston after the Oilers bolted for Tennessee in 1997 -- has died.
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The film adaptation of Michael Lewis' best-selling novel tells the story of Wall Street outsiders who made a fortune predicting the subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent financial crash.
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We broke the story -- the couple made a fortune on the 1-acre property ... selling it for $17.8 million last week after buying it for $9 mil in 2013.
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By the way, they have a Beats By Dre connection -- Jimmy (who co-founded the company with Dr. Dre) made a fortune when Apple purchased it for $3.2 billion.
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The Journal, citing a person familiar with the negotiations, reported that the contract was paid by Pavel Fuks, a Kharkiv native who made a fortune in Russian real estate.
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He had made a fortune building custom homes as Vegas boomed higher and higher, and for his own, he chose red Spanish tiles, wrought iron and silky white plaster.
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Roger Ailes, a co-founder of Fox News who made a fortune creating a safe space for Americans longing for times gone by, died at the age of 77.
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Sondland is a Trump-lite figure who made a fortune in hotels and donated a million dollars to Trump's inaugural committee before the President appointed him to the ambassadorship.
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The Stone During the 1930s and '40s, the Dutch forger Han van Meegeren made a fortune by successfully passing off many of his fakes as authentic paintings by Vermeer.
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They are currently being developed by an organization called the Seasteading Institute, which is heavily funded by Peter Thiel, the gay guy who made a fortune by co-founding Paypal.
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Hertz is just one of many investments for Icahn, whom over the years has made a fortune by buying into companies and advocating for change in management, operations or both.
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"I am supportive of Lamar as a person & also of the process, but I can never support bailing out ins co's who have made a fortune w/ O'Care," Trump tweeted.
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Emin's father, Aras, had made a fortune as a real-estate developer in Moscow, and Emin had put the family fortune to work for the benefit of his singing career.
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Top venture capitalist Jason Calacanis — who has made a fortune investing in Silicon Valley start-ups such as Uber and Tumblr — is certainly familiar with his fair share of founders.
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Stanford, who made a fortune from railroads during the mid 1800s, fell under the umbrella of a "Robber Baron," a negative term for the powerful industrialists of the Gilded Age.
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Grayson, a Harvard-educated lawyer who made a fortune from a telecommunications business he launched in the early 22012s, was not in public office during three of the four incidents.
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He made a fortune in distressed sovereign debt, purchasing bonds from countries that appeared to be in financial trouble, watching as they defaulted, then suing in court for full repayment.
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He formed an especially close relationship with Igor Sechin, who is among Putin's closest advisers, and who has made a fortune as chief executive of the state oil consortium, Rosneft.
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So he issued an executive order that would stop key Obamacare payments to insurers, in an effort to stop "bailing out [insurance companies] who have made a fortune" under Obamacare.
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Leibel is the son of Lorne Leibel, a Canadian real estate tycoon and sailor on Canada&aposs 1976 Olympics team who made a fortune by building homes in the Toronto area.
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She was approaching 0003, had made a fortune from co-founding and running VMware for 10 years, suffered through a prickly departure, and was enjoying life working with a few friends.
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Sparrow provided them with ten names, including those of Luyt, a South African fertilizer millionaire, and Lampas Nichas, a Greek immigrant to South Africa who had made a fortune selling potatoes.
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In a CNBC interview, Ross, who made a fortune buying distressed companies, said it was disappointing that some federal workers affected by the government shutdown were not showing up to work.
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Jones made a fortune by tapping into the power of social media platforms, but just as a television star who has his show canceled learns, you never really own your audience.
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Mr. Ranadivé, who made a fortune in Silicon Valley, pledged when he took control of the team in 213 to build a new home to keep the Kings rooted in Sacramento.
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Mr. Ramaphosa, an anti-apartheid labor leader who made a fortune in private business before returning to active politics in 2012, was narrowly elected the A.N.C.'s leader in late 2017.
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About 30 miles away, at a farm in Paris, Ky., Oussama Aboughazale, a Chilean-based native of Jerusalem, whose family made a fortune exporting fruit, is also stockpiling American Pharoah foals.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Glenn Dubin, who made a fortune building and managing hedge funds, is retiring from the industry after 20133 years to focus on private investments, the billionaire investor said.
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Mr. Flowers, a former Goldman Sachs partner, made a fortune buying into Japanese banks nearly 20 years ago, but struggled with some of the investments he made during the financial crisis.
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At that point, Becali, a former shepherd who made a fortune in real estate after the fall of communism, gradually increased his influence, and in 2003 he seized control of Steaua.
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His father, who had made a fortune in India, also met an untimely end, hit by a car as he walked the streets of London during the wartime blackout, in 21973.
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Dr. Raymond Sackler, a pioneer in psychopharmacology, a medicinal products entrepreneur and a leading philanthropist whose family made a fortune from the opioid painkiller OxyContin, died on Monday in Greenwich, Conn.
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In early spring, Petro Poroshenko, a financial backer of the Orange Revolution who had made a fortune in the chocolate industry, announced his candidacy for President, pledging "zero tolerance" for corruption.
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But the auto industry might need a new insult if the man who made a fortune building some of the world's coolest appliances pulls off his plan to create an electric car.
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Tanure, who made a fortune buying troubled shipyards and a small bank in the 1990s, entered the telecom sector through long-distance operator Intelig Telecom, which was acquired by TIM in 2009.
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Timchenko, who made a fortune in oil trading and has been described by Putin as one of his closest associates, bought the Gulfstream G650 jet in 2013, according to aircraft registration records.
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MannKind was started by Alfred E. Mann, who made a fortune founding aerospace and medical device companies, including the insulin pump manufacturer MiniMed, which was sold to Medtronic for about $3 billion.
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Then known as "Big T", Mr Middelhoff made a fortune for Bertelsmann when he sold its stake in AOL for close to €7bn ($6.7bn) in 2000, just before the dotcom bubble burst.
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The 40-year-old superstar has made a FORTUNE during his boxing career -- and says he feels he's got AT LEAST another 5 years of fighting before hangin' 'em up for good.
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The son of fashion billionaire Lawrence, who made a fortune from the Tommy Hilfiger and Michael Kors fashion brands, Stroll will partner experienced Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas at the Mercedes-powered team.
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Rami Makhlouf is a cousin of the president who made a fortune through his ownership of Syriatel, the largest mobile-phone operator, and then branched out to property, banking and other sectors.
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ITHACA, N.Y. — Long before he made a fortune and helped found the Ivy League university here, Ezra Cornell assembled a crew that used gunpowder to blast through the wall of a gorge.
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The race for Hickenlooper's successor as governor pits Walker Stapleton, the Republican state treasurer, against Jared Polis, a five-term Democratic congressman from Boulder who made a fortune in online start-ups.
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Mr. Scaramucci made a fortune on Wall Street, but he gained fame on CNBC and in Las Vegas by defending the financial industry at a time when it had few public supporters.
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She gained the money to fuel her collecting after she married Barry Taper, a scion of a prominent Los Angeles family whose father made a fortune in the savings and loan business.
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The affair continued between the two after Macron left the town of Amiens to continue higher studies in Paris and his subsequent move into banking where he made a fortune before entering politics.
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"I think that a man that has run a business, and made a fortune, maybe we are underestimating his ability," Nigel Farage, head of UKIP, was quoted telling the U.K.'s Daily Express.
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For years, Imperial Defence Services made a fortune trading surplus parts from the Eastern Bloc, and Ranger's skills in acquiring huge amounts of guns also led to work helping out on feature films.
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After all, this is a show about a United States Attorney attempting to prosecute just the sort of hedge fund giant who made a fortune exploiting a system that McKay exposes as fraudulent.
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An overhaul promised by ministers has been delayed from November to March given the complexity of the changes and concerns they could help organised crime, which has traditionally made a fortune from construction.
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A couple of years ago, when Alex suddenly made a fortune from the Super Male Vitality supplements and so on, that's pretty much exactly the same time that his discourse got more aggressive.
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How he made his fortune: Lewis' initial wealth came from the hospitality industry in the late 1970s and early 1980s, before he made a fortune on the foreign exchange market alongside George Soros.
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An influential businessman who had made a fortune from confectionery, he pledged to take the ex-Soviet country out of Russia's orbit and restore control over the east in a matter of weeks.
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Born in 1867, the daughter of recently freed slaves, she made a fortune by creating hair-care products for black women, and taught them how to sell her products door-to-door, too.
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Even John Henry, who made a fortune with his investment firm and is well regarded as the owner of The Boston Globe, has recently expressed some distaste for the economics of print media.
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Mr. Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs executive and Hollywood producer who made a fortune from the syndication of TV shows, described the "corporatist media" as the "opposition party" in a speech on Thursday.
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Roger Ailes, the creator of Fox News, who died Thursday at 77, made a fortune creating a cultural safe space for Americans who pine for the way things were, our media columnist writes.
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An overhaul promised by ministers has been delayed from November to March given the complexity of the changes and concerns they could help organized crime, which has traditionally made a fortune from construction.
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"I am supportive of Lamar as a person & also of the process, but I can never support bailing out ins co's who have made a fortune w/ O'Care," Trump tweeted on Wednesday. Rep.
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Next book is 'Profiles in Corruption' by Peter Schweizer, reported as only Peter can, about the many conflicts of interest by politicians who've made a fortune for their families through their political connections.
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An entrepreneur who made a fortune thanks to his digital disruption of the newspaper industry has joined forces with a fearsome nonprofit watchdog publication that is expanding its coverage of the tech industry.
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The success of any Double Eagle IPO would depend on whether the oil price recovery holds, but that uncertainty doesn't bother the Texans — so far, they have made a fortune off the price crash.
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He has set out to vilify Ms McCaskill because of the business dealings of her husband, Joseph Shephard, who has made a fortune building low-income rental housing with the help of federal subsidies.
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After moving to Beijing to study at the university, Mr Zhao made a fortune in electronics, property and natural resources, before becoming chairman and second-largest shareholder (after the university itself) at Tsinghua Unigroup.
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Tom Kartsotis made a fortune by tapping into a sense of nostalgia with Fossil watches, and has now created a new company, Shinola, which has grounded its sense of manufactured nostalgia in Detroit. Inc.
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Triumphant with Mercedes engines, he made a fortune when he sold the team to the German car maker at the end of the 2009 season and continued as principal until leaving reluctantly in 2013.
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The success of any Double Eagle IPO would depend on whether the oil price recovery holds, but that uncertainty doesn't bother the Texans - so far, they have made a fortune off the price crash.
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It was Baron Rothschild, the 18th-century nobleman who pronounced "The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets," after he'd made a fortune buying up property when Napoleon lost at Waterloo.
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The collection, said to have been rivaled in Europe by only that of the queen of England, was established by a dynasty of industrialists who made a fortune in shipbuilding, coal, steel and iron.
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But on Wednesday, he wrote on Twitter that while he was supportive of the effort, "I can never support bailing out" insurance companies, which he said had made a fortune under the health law.
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The founder of New York Global Group, Mr. Wey made a fortune helping Chinese companies acquire what are known as shell companies — often the remnants of publicly traded companies — in deals called reverse mergers.
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Mike Keiser, who made a fortune in the greeting card business, is known to avid players for creating the golf mecca Bandon Dunes on the Oregon coast, a long 2120-mile drive from Portland.
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At Sports Illustrated, staffers are thinking about what life might be like under Junior Bridgeman, a former NBA star who has made a fortune in fast food and now runs a big Coke distributor.
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His grandfather actually came to America and made a fortune out in the Yukon, where he served up meals and alcohol and beds to the miners who were seeking their fortunes in the gold fields.
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But one reason that the company can afford such largesse is that it has made a fortune from marketing OxyContin, a drug that, thanks to over-prescription, is at the heart of America's opioid epidemic.
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We also asked who pays for dinner when he gets together with his billionaire cousins Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta (who made a fortune selling the UFC) ... and he had a great answer for that, too!
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Read more: Meet the latest actor in the whirlwind Ukraine inquiry: hotelier turned ambassador Gordon SondlandSondland made a fortune as a successful hospitality entrepreneur and executive in the Pacific Northwest, founding the Provenance Hotel chain.
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Under the name of "Madam C.J. Walker," Breedlove made a fortune in the early 20th century selling hair-care products, while working to improve the healthiness of her clients' follicles and also their self-image.
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There were many players in this game, and the ones most often pointed to are those who made a fortune betting against market volatility, then lost it just as quickly in a few hectic sessions.
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Influential investor George Soros, who famously made a fortune betting against the currency in 1992, said in a newspaper op-ed on Tuesday, that a Brexit would likely trigger a big sell-off in the pound.
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As someone who made a fortune in the United States (Pichette received hefty, multi-million dollar salaries at Google), he also wants to see more Canadian-founded success trickle down in that economy, instead of abroad.
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"We're heading for a day when every device in the world might be an economic actor," said Mr. Larsen, who made a fortune as a pioneer in online lending and founded Ripple, an Internet technology company.
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In October 2016 Bryan Johnson, an entrepreneur who had made a fortune by selling his payments company, Braintree, announced an investment of $100m in Kernel, a firm he has founded to "read and write neural code".
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Billionaire developers and media magnates have made a fortune off the Olympics; bribe and corruption investigations arising from these Games are a growth industry, with construction companies and hundreds of congressional deputies potentially in the dock.
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Mr. Soros, 87, a Jew who survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest during World War II, later made a fortune in the financial markets, and he created the foundations and donated billions of dollars to them.
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Pelosi set aside her plans for law school and followed his career, first to New York City and then to his native San Francisco, where he made a fortune as a financier and real estate investor.
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Mr. Ramaphosa, a onetime labor leader and protégé of Mr. Mandela who made a fortune in business and leads the party's reformist wing, was elected president of the A.N.C. in a hotly contested election in December.
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As the founder of New York Global Group, Mr. Wey has made a fortune helping Chinese companies acquire what are known as shell companies — often the remnants of publicly traded companies — in deals called reverse mergers.
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In 1909, Luella Day "Diamond Lil" MacConnell, a Chicago physician who made a fortune during the Klondike Gold Rush, began to market "Fountain of Youth" water that some maintain was from a well dug in 1875.
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He also notoriously didn't allow Elvis to perform overseas, where he could have made a fortune ... allegedly because the Colonel wasn't in the U.S. legally and was fearful he would be deported if he traveled with Elvis.
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The gigantic but now troubled construction firm, which was founded by the father of Osama bin Laden, made a fortune on public projects that included highways, airports, and the $27 billion expansion of the mosque at Mecca.
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Harry F. Mariani, who with his brother made a fortune introducing Americans to Italian wines, first through the chilled, sparkling sweet red Riunite promoted with a ubiquitous slogan, died on Tuesday in Huntington, N.Y. He was 221.
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" This morning on Twitter, after Axios event with Alexander: "I am supportive of Lamar as a person & also of the process, but I can never support bailing out ins co's who have made a fortune w/ O'Care.
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" Warner, who made a fortune in the telecom business, added, "Most of the companies in the Valley think that policymakers, one, don't get it, and, two, that ultimately, if they just stonewall us, then we'll go away.
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Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, a New Yorker who made a fortune in real estate and banking, captured the level of uncertainty lately among the world's wealthiest investors: "I can't compare this time to World War II," he said.
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The house eventually ended up back in the hands of one of Cooke's descendants named Spalding, then later was purchased by a local businessman named Thurston Twigg-Smith who had made a fortune publishing the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper.
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With a net worth of $2.2 billion, according to Forbes, Baron has made a fortune by doing extensive research, buying the stocks of companies he feels are undervalued, and keeping them for an average of about 14 years.
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Ross, an 80-year-old billionaire who made a fortune in purchasing assets of companies in distress, watched the election returns with Trump on Tuesday night at the White House, said a source with knowledge of the situation.
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Starting in the mid-nineties, he made a fortune from alternative hormone-replacement therapies and the sale of controversial supplements, such as colloidal silver, which he recommends for treating colds and the flu, and for promoting pet health.
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I looked at the two they were thinking of getting into, took $5,000 and decided that, what the hell, I probably should take a swing myself, knowing a few people personally who have made a fortune in bitcoin.
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Beyond their conservative politics, Mr. Trump, Mr. Bolton and Cambridge Analytica all share a patron — the Mercer family of Long Island, whose patriarch, Robert L. Mercer, made a fortune at the helm of a top-yielding hedge fund.
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Or like one of those Goldman Sachs traders who, in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, bought insurance on subprime mortgage bonds they had themselves designed to fail — and made a fortune when that failure occurred.
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President Donald Trump, who made a fortune in real estate and high-end hospitality and has a team of White House chefs at his disposal, is turning his well-known fast food affinity into a White House tradition.
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But Ahn Cheol-soo, 55, a former physician who made a fortune in software, has surged in the polls, in part because many voters appear to believe he is better suited to deal with the North Korean threat.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump, who made a fortune in real estate before running for political office, has decided to donate his first-quarter salary of $78,333 to the National Park Service, the White House announced on Monday.
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Among those who have called for Brexit to be halted are former Prime Minister Tony Blair, Goldman Sachs Group Inc Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein and George Soros, who made a fortune by betting against the British pound in 1992.
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I have been talking about it for a two year period, and the reason I say they are going to pay for the wall is because Mexico has made a fortune out of the stupidity of U.S. trade representatives.
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Named for an African-American beauty pioneer who made a fortune from licensing her salon chain and selling beauty products in the early 20th century, the salon and the building housing it had the appeal of that historical niche.
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Elon Musk, who made a fortune off Paypal (PYPL) and now runs Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX, declared that he will relentlessly pursue the goal of reviving deep-space exploration technologies with a rocket that can take humans to Mars.
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For his commerce secretary, Mr Trump has picked Wilbur Ross, a billionaire businessman who is also a protectionist, having made a fortune by buying and turning around stricken American steel and textiles mills, which he argues require stiffer protective tariffs.
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Founder He Xiaopeng, a serial entrepreneur who made a fortune selling his mobile browser company UCWeb to Alibaba, told CNBC in March that Xpeng may also try an IPO down the road, but wants to focus on building the business first.
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A "principal foreign agent" of the United States, as one Senate report referred to him, the billionaire playboy made a fortune (more than $100 million between 1970 and 19893 alone) from commissions negotiating arms deals with his native Saudi Arabia.
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Baron — who has a net worth of $2.2 billion, according to Forbes — has made a fortune by doing extensive research, buying the stocks of what he feels are undervalued companies, and keeping them for an average of about 14 years.
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Ronald P. Stanton, a refugee from Nazi Germany who made a fortune in petrochemicals and then gave or pledged more than $300 million to various charities, most of them in New York, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan.
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While many on Wall Street have focused on the blockchain technology and dismissed cryptocurrencies, Michael Novogratz has led the camp — and made a fortune — betting that the real innovation is in Bitcoin and the other digital tokens it has spawned.
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Not far away, by contrast, is an obvious example of Chinese productivity: a large gold mine that was closed by an Australian company in 2014, then sold last year to a Chinese developer who made a fortune in Australian real estate.
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Though only a sliver of the endowment's modest $130 million in assets is invested in fossil fuels, the move is notable because a century ago John D. Rockefeller Sr. made a fortune running Standard Oil, a precursor to Exxon Mobil.
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Mr Prigozhin operates far enough outside official structures to allow ministries to claim ignorance of his doings, but his Concord companies, which Robert Mueller's indictment (see article) says stood behind the IRA, still made a fortune from working with the Russian state.
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The self-made billionaire has made a fortune creating separate ventures all under the Virgin brandname, including Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Galactic, Virgin Records (which he sold for $1 billion in 1992) and most recently Virgin Voyages, a cruise business launching in 2020.
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You called her a smart and tenacious who had good sources, but you of course, went at it during your tenure and you say a therapist could have made a fortune from the amount of time you spent tangling with her, a therapist?
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Entities like the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (John Arnold made a fortune at Enron), the American Legislative Exchange Council and their allies are engaged in a multifaceted, multistate campaign to gut traditional pensions like Calpers.
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With such a commitment to the poor, it might seem curious that Gandhi was so comfortable here at a lavish private home built in 1928 for G.D. Birla, one of India's early industrialists, who made a fortune from jute — and from others' sweat.
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At a time when few companies paid much attention to black consumers, the Johnsons made a fortune with hair-care products aimed at black customers, beginning with a hair relaxer for men that Mr. Johnson developed while working for a cosmetics company.
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Often, they feature eccentrics and visionaries who see things that others are blind to — like Mr. Beane of the A's, or Michael Burry, the misanthropic hedge fund manager in "The Big Short," who made a fortune by betting against the housing market.
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McMahon, who made a fortune as the executive in charge of the WWE, which at one point featured Trump, will stay in his orbit as she tries to raise money for the super PAC that will try to help him win reelection.
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Kroenke, who made a fortune in real estate, married into Wal-Mart family wealth, built a sports empire and took control of the club in 2010, has declared St. Louis unfit to support an NFL franchise after 21 seasons in the Gateway City.
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SoftBank, a risk-loving Japanese group that is attracted to fashionable startups like a Brazilian to a football trophy, is among those who made a fortune in China (it is Alibaba's biggest shareholder) and is keen to repeat the feat in other rising tech powers.
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Steve Jurvetson, who made a fortune selling Hotmail to Microsoft in the early days of the consumer web, and went on to invest heavily in Tesla and SpaceX, is leaving legendary VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson in the wake of a sexual harassment investigation.
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The French and British immediately shelved his quaint idea, but Wilson stuck with it, and appointed two commissioners, Henry Churchill King, the former president of Oberlin College, and Charles R. Crane, the scion of a family that had made a fortune from plumbing parts.
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A businessman who made a fortune operating jewelry counters inside department stores and worked in Mr. Giuliani's New York mayoral administration, Mr. Cornstein has courted Viktor Orban, Hungary's authoritarian prime minister, who in turn has provided fodder for Mr. Trump's critical view of Ukraine.
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Mr. Firtash, who made a fortune acting as an intermediary in natural gas sales in the former Soviet Union, was indicted in Chicago in 2012 on charges of bribing officials in India through American banks to secure a titanium mining deal that never materialized.
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Chris Hughes, who made a fortune as a co-founder of Facebook, told CNBC on Tuesday American workers who make less than $50,000 per year should get a government stipend of $500 per month — paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy 1 percent.
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Family tragedy Mickey Thompson abandoned his dream when he lost a sponsorship, but he made a fortune with his companies: Mickey Thompson Performance Tires, used by drivers at the Indianapolis 500; and Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group, which held indoor shows featuring motocross and off-road vehicles.
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While the strongest demand for EB-5 visas is from China, Mr. da Silva, who made a fortune — his net worth was $444 million in 53, according to Forbes Brasil — building a chain of English-language schools in his native Brazil, decided to single out his countrymen.
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I made a fortune off of debt, will fix U.S. In an Instagram post coinciding with the tweet, he slammed President Obama and presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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LET us now consider a particular presidential candidate who made a fortune in business and real estate, who reveled in being famous, who had never held elective office before and who urged his supporters to cancel their subscriptions to a newspaper that had called him an idiot.
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REUTERS How Elliott Made a Fortune Off Argentine Debt | Elliott Management Corporation made 10 to 15 times what it paid for some Argentine debt by buying at a steep discount millions of dollars in bonds that earned 101 percent interest per year, The Wall Street Journal explains.
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Roger Cohen In the mid-1980s, when I was covering Italy for The Wall Street Journal, I profiled a brash, bruising, billionaire businessman named Silvio Berlusconi who had made a fortune in real estate and parlayed that into control of an almost unrivaled private television empire.
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As a venture capitalist who served as both a consultant and board member for drug companies, he had made a fortune from the industry he would regulate, written impassioned anti-regulatory columns in conservative journals, and held stock in industry players large and small, which he divested.
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As to the identity of the anonymous sender, there was nothing to give up: Left had no idea who it was, except someone who almost certainly had a short position in Evergrande and made a fortune off the publication without the hassle of appearing in court.
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"Tom Steyer made a fortune investing in oil and coal, and is now dumping an unprecedented amount of money into political causes which promise to increase the value of his latest investments in 'green energy,' " Brian Rogers, America Rising Squared's executive director, said in a statement.
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Michael Goldstein, a music publicist who made a fortune turning vinyl records into gold before starting The SoHo Weekly News, a spirited newspaper that over a nine-year run was bent on silencing its rival The Village Voice, died on May 19 at his home in Manhattan.
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McConnell faces pressure to bring Senate back for gun legislation Criminal justice reform should extend to student financial aid MORE (R-Tenn.), as well as the Senate process, but said he would "never support bailing out" insurance companies, saying they "have made a fortune" under ObamaCare.
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" But Spicer also calls Maggie Haberman of The New York Times, with whom he often clashed, "a smart and tenacious reporter with good sources ... Over time—a therapist could have made a fortune from the amount—Maggie and I have learned how to hear and listen to each other.
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"The beauty of my life is that from 32, 33 on, I figured out how to be myself completely on television and all these years I have made a fortune being myself," Winfrey, who covers the August issue of the magazine, proudly states in a video posted Thursday.
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" Hurricane Harvey Relief money for Texas Touting the "billions and billions of dollars" in relief money he authorized for Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey in 22.5 -- and teasing Texas lawmakers over their requests for him to spend more -- Trump said, "You made a fortune on the hurricane.
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An agreement with China would have to fix all the violations that the U.S. alleges, otherwise making a deal would not make any sense, said Ross, who before joining the White House, made a fortune in the investment world, running W.L. Ross & Co., and buying stakes in distressed assets.
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Broidy, a 20173-year-old Los Angeles businessman, made a fortune in investments before moving into defense contracting and has played prominent roles in GOP fundraising, including as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2006 to 2008 and vice chair of the Trump Victory Committee in 2016.
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More than 30 teams signed up, including Moon Express, founded in 2010 by Mr. Jain, who made a fortune creating the website InfoSpace and then lost most of it in the internet bust of 2000; Robert D. Richards, a space entrepreneur; and Barney Pell, a former NASA computer scientist.
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It's a pretty weak joke (made worse by the fact that Harold says an uncle of his made a fortune that way) and also an example of what passes for irony in "Gringo," a new movie directed by Nash Edgerton from a screenplay by Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone.
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On the surface, Chuck Rhoades Jr. (Paul Giamatti)—the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York—should have the noble advantage over Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis), a billionaire hedge-fund mogul who made a fortune on September 11 by shorting aviation and shipping stocks between the two tower hits.
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Brunello Cucinelli, the cashmere philosopher king who made a fortune selling the Slow Movement — a philosophy of putting the brakes on life — alongside $3,000 sweaters, has invited his most valued customers and investors to his medieval hill town of Solomeo, Italy, to enjoy homemade pasta and olive oil with his family.
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Whereas Mr. Trudeau is the grandson of a lawyer who made a fortune creating a chain of gas stations, the 40-year-old Mr. Scheer was raised in a townhouse by a family who didn't own a car, although that lifestyle appeared to be the product of his family's frugality.
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The campaign focuses on Soros, 86, a Hungarian Jew who emigrated after World War Two, made a fortune in the United States and has long been heavily involved with groups promoting liberal democratic and open-border values in post-Communist eastern Europe, a cause at odds with Orban's world view.
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Carl Icahn, billionaire activist investor Icahn said he had attended a luncheon in the Hamptons in New York every summer for the past decade, and that an investor could have made a fortune by betting against what the billionaires at the luncheon speculated would happen to the stock market in the following year.
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Mr. Trump spent a lifetime in New York City and for years lived a life that could happen only here: Born in Queens to a self-made millionaire who made a fortune building affordable housing, the younger Mr. Trump expanded the family business and barged into the upper echelon of Manhattan's wealthy establishment.
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Some highlights: --Activist investor Carl Icahn said he had attended a luncheon in the Hamptons in New York every summer for the past decade, and that an investor could have made a fortune by betting against what the billionaires at the luncheon speculated would happen to the stock market in the following year.
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Mr. Rauner, a native of Chicago's wealthy north suburbs who made a fortune as the chairman of a private-equity firm, presented himself to voters in 2013 as an outsider, a Harley-riding political newcomer with a folksy affect who would fix Illinois's financial problems and make the state more attractive to companies.
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Below are some of the other Canada-related stories from the past week —Robert Campeau, the real estate tycoon who made a fortune with cheap houses in Ottawa's suburbs, loaded up on debt to create a department store empire that included Bloomingdale's and then saw his company spectacularly fail, has died at 93.
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A New Jersey-born professional talker who made a fortune as a lobbyist and communications advisor to blue-chip companies, Mr. Gillespie has attempted to satisfy these rival voter blocs by arguing that Virginia would be better served by a Republican governor, because he could engage more directly with a president of the same party.
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Political careers depend on money, of course, and Mr. Moore has picked up a lot of what he needs — at least $622,000 in campaign contributions since 2004 — from Michael Peroutka, a lawyer who made a fortune in the consumer debt collection business and now serves on the county council of Anne Arundel County in Maryland.
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Mr. Manafort, Mr. Trump's former campaign manager and now a convicted fraudster, made a fortune in Ukraine by convincing its since toppled pro-Russian president, Viktor F. Yanukovych, that he could, for a hefty fee, help woo Europe and blacken the reputation of his main political rival, Yulia Timochenko, who had been thrown in jail.
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In another example, Halcon Resources Corp - built by its CEO Floyd Wilson, who has made a fortune launching and selling off oil companies - disclosed in a securities filing last week that Wilson received $3 million and three other top executives $800,6.93 each in exchange for an agreement to stay for at least another year.
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Read more:The Trump administration is planning to roll out a new rule rejecting green cards for immigrants on food stamps and other public aidHere's how immigration in the US has changed over the past 2 centuriesThese 15 immigrants became millionaires and billionaires after coming to the US13 people who came to America with nothing and made a fortune
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A white, evangelical Christian who made a fortune buying up dilapidated Florida apartment complexes after the 2008 crash and refurbishing them as affordable housing, the Winter Park businessman had run against Gillum in the Democratic gubernatorial primary earlier this summer—and lost spectacularly, finishing fifth in the primary, with less than 3 percent of the vote.
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"When you grow the share of out-of-state students, you're making the student body richer, more white and Asian and less black and Latino," said one of the study's co-authors, Ozan Jaquette, an assistant professor of education at U.C.L.A. William Deary, who has made a fortune in the home health care business in Jackson, Mich.
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"If you've made a fortune in something like a Zscaler or a Pivotal Software or a DocuSign or a Carbon Black or even a Zuora, which I adore, ring the register on part of your position and swap some of that money into a cheaper, more established cloud stock like Salesforce or even Adobe, " Cramer suggested.
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Bloomberg, who has deep ties to Wall Street and made a fortune selling technology to banks, wants to fortify the Volcker Rule, reinstate consumer protections overturned by the Trump administration, bolster the Elizabeth Warren-inspired Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fight corporate crime by creating a dedicated group at the Justice Department and require companies to report climate change risks.
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Mr. Cruz's backers include the Wilks family of Texas, who made a fortune in the shale oil boom and are prominent donors to anti-abortion groups; Edward Czuker, a Los Angeles real estate developer and board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition; and the Illinois businessman Richard Uihlein, who gave $220 million to a pro-Cruz super PAC in January.
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From Silicon Valley, backers include Kenneth Duda, the chief technology officer of Arista Networks; Mike Moritz, the Sequoia Capital partner who made a fortune backing Google and Yahoo; Jim Swartz, the co-founder of venture firm Accel; and Mimi Haas, who's not in tech but is a major Bay Area figure and the widow of Peter Haas of the Levi Strauss family.
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A month after his Election Day victory, then-President-Elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE boasted that he wanted "people that made a fortune" to join his fledgling administration.
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Its color evokes the 1950s, the era in which the house was built (by the Italian count Franco Cella di Rivara, who made a fortune creating Marvis toothpaste), but its style is late 18th century — a supremely decorative period that the designer, who made his name displacing 1980s kitsch with sophisticated Italian minimalism, seems to crave in his off time.
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Since 2004, Gregory C. Carr, who made a fortune in telecommunications before turning to full-time philanthropy and human rights advocacy, has spent tens of millions of dollars on the park and the 1,300 square miles of so-called buffer zone that surrounds it, where some of the poorest communities in Mozambique, and hence in the world, can be found.
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Konnikova sticks to her genre's familiar formula, juxtaposing academic research with brief narratives of a wide range of cons, from the two-bit three-card monte games that were once ubiquitous on New York City street corners to more outlandish scams, like the 19th-century Scot Gregor MacGregor who made a fortune persuading the public to invest in the bonds of a fictional government.
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Not long after 9/11, when New York, though increasingly safe from crime, was still on edge, a real-estate tycoon told me that he had made a fortune investing in Manhattan properties since the seventies (when the city seemed doomed), and was optimistic that New York would continue to thrive, for a simple reason: the median age of first children kept going up.
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And while she may be the youngest in the family, she's certainly not the only one to do it: she and her sisters have made a fortune off turning their personalities into hugely successful businesses that span everything from video games to denim to lip kits, and of course, Kylie's eponymous line of merchandise for all of the fans who want to exclusively wear clothing emblazoned with the youngest Jenner's name.
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